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by codeulike 2y ago
Its clearly a UK/USA split, for some reason the article does not mention this. Wikipedia has it on 'List of words having different meanings in American and British English' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L
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by codeulike 2y ago
A few years ago I named my number puzzle app "Numplussed" which I thought was a good name because the UK meaning of Nonplussed is "puzzled". And obviously you've got the word 'plussed' in there which is go
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by codeulike 2y ago
I'm a mathematician, and thats crazy. Marvellous.
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by codeulike 2y ago
You misunderstand me. Consciousness definitely exists, but its workings are likely different to our preconceptions of how it should work. I offer saccadic masking as an example of how aspects of how it works are 'hidden' from us.
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by codeulike 2y ago
I read Consciousness Explained 30 years ago and at first I was miffed that it didn't touch on the possibilties of Quantum mechanics and consciousness, a buzzword idea that I was keen on at the time. But then every chapter was so fascin
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by codeulike 2y ago
Its a great book, you might not agree that it 'explains' consciousness but it will give you a lot of new ways to think about it and it references a lot of interesting research.
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by codeulike 2y ago
I guess you're right, I had translated it into a modern analogous concern. Its interesting to think about. Do the same arguments I've already made apply? So: If the universe is determinsitic then God only has omniscient predestina
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by codeulike 2y ago
If you think back to Descartes and a lot of the philosophy about determinism and free will, they had quite a naive understanding of systems and determinism because their mental model of a complex system was a clockwork watch or a steam engi
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by codeulike 2y ago
Article triggers critical mass of pedantry on HN, thread collapses in on itself
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by codeulike 2y ago
So they found the biggest one that isn't really big
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by codeulike 2y ago
Oh yeah these things. Most fridges have a dial with 1 to 6 on it, no arrow, and I dont know whether it means temperature (degrees c) or power. So is a bigger number less cold or more cold? Have to turn it and listen to see if it gets noisie
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by codeulike 2y ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/directx/introducing-neural-pr... DirectML is a low-level API that provides a common abstraction layer for hardware vendors to expose their machine learning accelerators. DirectML works w
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by codeulike 2y ago
Surface is pretty well regarded as I understand it. Microsoft set out to make 'the sortof macbook equivlaent for windows' and largely succeeded. Although obviously macbook remains the champion overall I guess. I'm sorry you h
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by codeulike 2y ago
Can you do an eli5 of what ttbomk means?
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by codeulike 2y ago
I think they meant: For any given site, theres proportionally 'few' people that would be disadvantaged
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by codeulike 2y ago
what does lmgtfu mean?
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by codeulike 3y ago
True but there's so much scope for people to do naive implementations with join() or split() functions and then you end up with nothing escaped properly and a big mess
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by codeulike 3y ago
CSV is like an invasive plant species, or perhaps a curse; you're never going to be able to root it out even thought there are a billion better data formats.
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by codeulike 3y ago
Initially StackOverflow gamified Q+A but then they accidentally gamified Moderation and thats when it went downhill
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by codeulike 3y ago
The five stages of grief Denial: " Tableau will become a tool in the Salesforce toolbox that major players will continue to use. " Anger: " Salesforce executives mentioning Tableau less than Slack or Mulesoft on their public
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by codeulike 3y ago
Right, but if you're a developer you might as well use something more developery. Like the selling point of Access was supposed to be that non-coders could use it to knock together a database. In the late 90s I built some quite big thi
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by codeulike 3y ago
I never saw an Access database that didn't become a regretful mess after a couple of years - the person that made it left, no-one knew how to update it. Fancy validation built into the form that just got in the way when requirements ch
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by codeulike 3y ago
I remember this from 1994, reading it in the uni computer lab. These was a meme at the time, before the word meme came about. Its interesting that there were photos, that was quite unusual for the time. Notice that they are in .gif format.
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by codeulike 3y ago
We're actually in the Celery Man Timeline since Sora (ref: 14 years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maAFcEU6atk )
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by codeulike 3y ago
This is a brilliant breakdown of whats been going on with review lists. Its been obvious for the last five years or so that whenever I googled 'best laser jet printer' or whatever that I was getting fed a load of bullshit but this
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by codeulike 3y ago
In 1991 I was writing games and in those days you had to think a lot about how many moving objects there were on the screen and how many you could fit within the frame rate etc. So that gave games that 'arcade' feel where the play
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by codeulike 3y ago
"I've Been Thinking" is the best possible name for a philosopher's autobiography
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by codeulike 3y ago
Reinhart, Rogoff... and Herndon: The student who caught out the profs (2013) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22223190
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by codeulike 3y ago
Note that in Europe or UK downloading bulk employee lists would likely mean you are now handling 'personal data' and so various GDPR rules kick in
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by codeulike 3y ago
But unless you're a dualist, you have to admit that our biological brain is a massive bundle of cells from which consciousness somehow arises. It must be those mushy tangled cells, there's nothing else there. It probably is a prob

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